Kylie Minogue talks new single ‘Lights Camera Action’ and bringing back her “’90s experimental side” for ‘Tension’ world tour
nme.comKylie Minogue has released her new single ‘Lights Camera Action’ today (September 27), off her upcoming album ‘Tension II’. The pop icon spoke with NME in Singapore ahead of her headline performance at the country’s F1 Grand Prix, giving us the lowdown on the record – including a song she described as the “distant cousin” of Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ – and the ‘Tension’ world tour.‘Tension II’, which is set for release on October 18, will be the sequel to Minogue’s critically acclaimed 2023 album ‘Tension’, which spawned the viral hit ‘Padam Padam’.
She told NME that the upcoming record is “kind of a hybrid” between a deluxe edition and a new album, one that “was never intended to be another volume of work”.“You have an album and then there’s songs that didn’t make it or songs that have come in afterwards,” she said, partly referring to her 2024 collaborations with Sia, Orville Peck, The Blessed Madonna, Tove Lo and Bebe Rexha.
Minogue soon found herself with “more and more songs”, eventually ending up with “enough” for a fully fledged sequel.Headlining ‘Tension II’ is Minogue’s latest single, ‘Lights Camera Action’, which she characterised as having “that similar kind of hypnotic quality” as ‘Padam Padam’. “The kind of call-to-action of ‘lights, camera, action, that’s it’ [of the chorus] just felt a bit catchphrase-y,” she explained. “I just thought it was cool.”The tracks on ‘Tension II’ are, overall, “a fun group of friends”, the pop star said.
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